Licensee is the one who gives the green-lit to the designs. In this case, the warhammer miniature team liaises with Bandai, offering advices and requests on the sculpt, the warhammer team also decides on the placement of the joints. It's not squarely on Bandai, licensee has a major say during the design process.
Most of those complaints sound more like a Bandai America thing to me, not Bandai Japan, but to each their own.
Cheers for posting - screencaps from it: In the background of that first pic are some boxes with space marines of various flavours on - I assume they’re something else other than this figure?
Those are miniature sets, I suppose. Games workshop has a small presence in Japan, the hobby show is an opportunity for Games Workshop to present their wares.
A couple of shots I hadn't seen before (same figure and everything, I think just from a newer con or whichever): Can't remember the site I saw them at, apologies. Really hope that these take off and we get more classic space marine versions too.
Just my cursed luck that after waiting decades for posable Space Marine, they would go with a Primaris Marine . . .
Does anyone actually play tabletop miniature games anymore? In NYC it sort of died out in the late 2000s. I have bought a bunch of X-Wing and Star Wars Armada, and since Legion, but 40k at least in these parts died during 4th edition.
I know how you feel. But Gee Dubs gotta push their even more genetically enhanced super space marines! At least it looks damn good. And at 6" its gonna tower over the majority of my ML figures! 40K is still probably the most popular and nost played minis war game IIRC.
I've been out of 40K for decades but I still keep up with the lore since I've been been invested in it since the early 90's. I do like they are moving the timeline forward but do they have to have gaudy troop type names like Agressor, Intercessor, & Hellblaster? Sounds like a 15 year old kid with a lot of bottled up angst and juiced up on Monster Energy named them.
Similar here - I’m invested in the older school satire/punky/Blanch gothic 40k, not so much the vibe of the modern stuff (plus the art seems to just be really dull modern ‘concept art’ looking stuff).
I would weep tears of joy if they made an actual line of figures along the lines of Inquisitor or Kill Team, and included enemies as well as the thrice-dammed Imperials. My kingdom for an articulated Lictor, Genestealer, Night Lord or Emperor's Children Marine! Ahem... Sorry about that.
More photos, courtesy of Spikey bits: More of the same, but gives a better idea of the knee and toe artic.
Sharp-O™ on Twitter This is the first colored picture of the prototype. The last we saw of this was months ago. Looks great.
